Program Analyst

Duties

Be the Strategic Force Behind Our Mission to Energize the Pacific Northwest!

Are you a strategic innovator who thrives on transforming complex challenges into elegant solutions? Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is on a mission to deliver reliable, affordable, and clean energy to the Pacific Northwest. We're seeking a top-tier Program Analyst to be a critical driver of our operational success and a key partner in our continued modernization.

In this vital role, you won't just support our mission-you will actively shape it by analyzing our most complex challenges and designing the future of our operations. You will be empowered to make a tangible impact on an organization that powers millions of homes and businesses.

• Partner with project and program managers to document changes in project scope, cost, and schedule affecting project and budget execution.
• Coordinate and/or leads necessary teams to establish system(s) for program forecasting and project reporting.
• Gather, extract, reviews, and reports costs compared against estimates for projects in the capital programs, PFIA, Lease Financed, Customer Funded and the expense reimbursable programs.
• Conduct detailed analyses of functions and work processes of broad technical programs; monitoring the project lifecycle process and communicating risks associated with costs, resources and schedules from the capital, expense and expense reimbursable projects and programs within the transmission project lifecycle and makes recommendations for improvement in the effectiveness and efficiency of work operations.
• Coordinate review and resolution of discrepancies between estimates and actuals with planning, project management, engineering, regions, supply chain, construction and realty; provide data analysis support to lead analyst for capital project expenditures.
• Upon notice of project completion, places capital assets into plant in service upon project completion initiating the start of depreciation.

In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire. Answer to these questions is not scored or rated. Your answers will be reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection consideration.

When you apply you will be asked a series of questions to determine your eligibility for employment and your qualification for this position specifically. You must answer all of these questions completely and truthfully.

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• Males must abide by Selective Service registration requirements.
• You will be required to report in person to the official duty location.

• This position has been designated as requiring a PUBLIC TRUST background. A preliminary background check must be completed before a new employee can begin work. Current Federal employees or other individuals with an existing completed background investigation may not be required to undergo another background check.

A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level [GS-9] in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as:
1)
Conducted detailed project and asset unitization analyses for capital and reimbursable projects to monitor scope, schedule, budget, and forecasts.
2)
Utilized capital assets in a timely and accurate manner to maintain compliance with regulations and internal guidelines.

• Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree; or a LL.M., if related; your education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.
  
  -OR-
• Combination of education and experience as described above. Less than one year of specialized experience may be combined with graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level (i.e., credit hours beyond the first two years of full-time study may be credited). One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours the graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study.
  
  If the graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study is not available, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) is used. When crediting education that requires specific course work the number of hours of related courses required, as a proportion of the total education, is prorated.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and Ameri Corps); as…